Embodied Wisdom: A Lived Experience Showcase

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's Fall 2022-Spring 2023 virtual training series CROSSROADS OF CRISIS

<h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/crossroads-of-crisis" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/crossroads-of-crisis  </a></h3><h3>*ASL and live closed captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 3 CE credits are available for this class. Learn more about CE credits at IDHA <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/ce-information" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</h3><h2>Class Description</h2><p>As is often said, those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. The same is true in the case of mental health crisis response; those who have been through a crisis first hand will always understand “what works” – and what doesn’t – better than anyone else. People with lived experience hold unique and invaluable knowledge when it comes to every step on the continuum of crisis care, from how to create a community that recognizes a crisis, to establishing community support before a crisis happens, to alternative ways of responding.</p><p>To end this eight-part series, this class will bring together a group of peers, activists, organizers, and disabled community members who have firsthand experiences of trauma, distress, and crisis, as well as extensive embodied wisdom that accompanies those experiences. Faculty members will share aspects of their stories, with a focus on what they learned and how it informs the work they do today. We will root our exploration in peer support, a liberatory practice that can help create an endoskeleton for the liberatory futures we dream of by strengthening our capacities for self and community care. Participants will build critical skills around awareness, empathy, action, and support, and walk away with strategies for how to “be with” those experiencing crisis.</p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Apply peer support values to crisis care work</li><li>Practice mindfulness and responsiveness as key tools when navigating crisis</li><li>Evaluate how individuals can seek support in your own immediate community</li><li>Identify how communities can recognize and intervene in crisis situations, while upholding autonomy, agency, and self-determination</li></ul><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong>Allilsa Fernandez </strong>is a mental health and disability advocate, activist and consultant. They have worked with companies such as Facebook, Lionsgate, Verizon, and ReelAbilities Los Angeles. In addition, they have volunteered with Sylvia Rivera Law Project on shelter organizing, with Met Council on housing justice, and NYC mutual aid providing aid to people across NYC. Allilsa has also worked with diverse organizations, companies, and politicians such as Janos Marton, to create intersectional mental health policies. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Stony Brook University with a bachelors in Psychology, and completed her fellowships with The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation, and Latino Justice Law Bound. Their work has been featured in Forbes Magazine and the Laura Flanders show.</p><p><strong>Chris Huff </strong>has led citywide community organizing efforts for Heartland Alliance’s READI Chicago, which aims to reduce gun violence through cognitive behavioral interventions, employment, and wrap-around social services for high-risk individuals. In addition, Chris helped lead student civic engagement efforts at University of Chicago’s University Community Service Center, where he designed and developed social justice-based cohort programs for undergraduate and graduate students at the university. Through his work at the Vera Institute of Justice, Chris also led formerly incarcerated youth in developing policy and program recommendations for the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. Last but certainly not least, Chris worked with the University of Chicago – Institute of Politics where he advised UChicago students on ways to use their educational experiences to meaningfully engage in social justice efforts on Chicago’s Southside.</p><p><strong>Aislinn Pulley </strong>(she/her, they/them) is a Co-Executive Director at the Center, and a long timer organizer who has worked on a variety of campaigns including the Reparations Now movement to pass the historic 2015 Reparations Ordinance for survivors of CPD torture, campaigns for justice for families who have lost loved ones to police violence, defense campaigns to free political prisoners, and many others. Born and raised in Chicago, Aislinn founded the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter and was the youngest founding member of the cultural non-profit that used art for social change, Insight Arts. She was an organizer with We Charge Genocide, as well as a member of performance ensembles which include Visibility Now, which she founded for young women dedicated to ending sexual assault. Aislinn is an alumnus at Columbia College Chicago having studied graphic arts, and North Park University where she double majored in psychology and sociology.</p><p><strong>Jahmil Roberts </strong>(name/only) is a community organizer and professional who works to build more satisfying practices of connection for Black people. Jahmil&#x27;s shifts the ways we relate to one another by encouraging analysis and curiosity while building trust. Jahmil actively creates spaces to name and respond to impacts of systemic harm, and nurture individual and collective growth and healing.</p><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, an optional 90-minute discussion group one week after the live class (Sunday, June 11 from 12-1:30 pm EST), and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health on Mighty Networks (our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty).</p><h3>Questions? Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</h3>

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